Climate & Environmental Protection
Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa Supreme Court hears arguments over water quality in Raccoon River
Environmental groups that want the state to regulate farm pollution running into waterways took their arguments to the Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food…
Agri-Pulse: Iowa high court to hear arguments in water case involving ancient legal doctrine
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that seeks to require the state to adopt a mandatory nutrient reduction program in the Raccoon River watershed, which…
McKiver v. Murphy-Brown
In an historic victory, hundreds of mostly Black and brown community members in Eastern North Carolina won a series of mass action lawsuits against Smithfield for the public nuisance caused…
Groups submit brief to Iowa Supreme Court in Clean Water Lawsuit as State seeks to “close off” judiciary to citizen groups on behalf of “Big Ag”
Yesterday, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) and Food & Water Watch (FWW) filed a brief before the Iowa Supreme Court, defending a Polk County District Court ruling that the organizations’…
Delaware Public Media: Lawyer weighs in on state’s agreement with Mountaire
Some advocates have concerns about an agreement reached between state environmental regulators and Mountaire Farms over wastewater violations from 2017. The agreement resolves permit violations associated with a 2017 wastewater…
The Denver Channel: Meat packing plant broke law for 5 yrs.
Colorado regulators are now rethinking how they handled dangerous water discharges from one of the world’s largest meat packers.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Swift Beef
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice), as well as in-house counsel, represented the Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch in a lawsuit against JBS-Swift Beef…
Court Will Hear Case Seeking Raccoon River Restoration and Factory Farm Moratorium
Late yesterday afternoon, Polk County District Court Judge Robert Hanson ordered that a lawsuit to restore the Racoon River, heavily polluted with agricultural runoff, may proceed over the objections of…
The Fern: JBS, under fire for taking Trump’s tariff bailout, is accused of polluting a Colorado river
In a new lawsuit, environmental advocates say a Colorado beef-packing plant owned by JBS has been dumping polluted wastewater into a river for years.